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Toilet: Ek Prem Katha', It Isn't: Documentary Reveals The Brutal Reality Of Manual Scavenging

Toilet: Ek Prem Katha', It Isn't: Documentary Reveals The Brutal Reality Of Manual Scavenging

by The Daily Eye Team March 22 2017, 1:29 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secs

Divya Bharathi’s powerful documentary Kakkoos (Toilet), about the prevalence of manual scavenging in Tamil Nadu, is very difficult to watch – imagine what it is like to have to clear human refuse every single day. After a recent screening in Chennai, Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Bezwada Wilson was lost for words. “It is difficult to speak after watching this documentary,” said Wilson, the national convener of the Safai Karmachari Andolan. “This documentary is a 360-degree picturisation of the lives of sanitation workers in our country. There is no angle that has not been covered.”

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HUMRA QURAISHI


Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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